Tirar netas. A propĂłsito de Decencia
Esta tarde que presentamos Decencia (Anagrama, 2011), voy a cometer un acto indecente y desde ahora ofrezco disculpas a su autor por revelar parte de una correspondencia que hoy, por…
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Essay /ensayo
City of Death, City of Hope
Ciudad de muerte, ciudad de esperanza
Rothko Chapel organized a magnificent series of lectures about violence in Ciudad Juárez. Our special thanks to them for providing us with the permission to cover Cecilia Balli´s work. *…
The War on Drugs
La guerra contra las drogas
Special thanks to the Rothko Chapel for providing us with the permission to cover Charles Bowden´s work. * * * The War on Drugs, the war on the Mexican poor,…
Borderline: The Epicenter of Violence
Special thanks to the Rothko Chapel for providing us with the permission to cover Alfredo Corchado´s work. * * * Since December 2006, more than 30,000 people have been killed…
Searching for a New Sanctuary Movement
Buscando un nuevo Santuario
 Over the past several months, largely provoked by Arizona’s draconian immigration law, SB1070, and slow movement by legislators in Washington D.C., immigrant-rights activists have increasingly turned to various forms of…
Reconsidering the Mexican Revolution
Reconsideraciones sobre la RevoluciĂłn Mexicana
The delegates to the constitutional convention of 1916-1917 and the political leadership of the nation that emerged at the conclusion of the Mexican Revolution of 1910-1917 represented a broad cross-section…
Chile 2010: El terremoto del alma
 En los dĂas de lluvia y neblina, Carmen Carrasco solĂa encender un pequeño brasero a carbĂłn en su lugar más amado, la cocina. Acomodaba las sillas en un cĂrculo y…
“And Everything Was There”. On Otto F. Walter´s First Novel The Mute
Otto F. Walter’s (1928-1994) debut novel The Mute is one of the most original and aesthetically intriguing novels written in Switzerland during the 1950s. Walter who made himself a name…
A Third Culture. Literature and Migration
I grew up on the Mexican-American border of El Paso, Texas, about one kilometer from Mexico, the homeland of my parents who were from Chihuahua. In the barrio, Ysleta, where…
La travesĂa del surfista. En torno a Haruki Murakami
…para mĂ escribir novelas es un reto, escribir cuentos es un placer. H.M. The Portable Murakami En los Ăşltimos dos años, Haruki Murakami ha publicado tres volĂşmenes narrativos: uno, inusual…
Cuaderno de viaje: Hacia el Orient Express
 Linett Ridgeway desciende de su Rolls Royce color escarlata, visita su nueva mansiĂłn, Malton-Under-Wode, reconstruida a todo lujo en el lugar que antes ocupara la de un arruinado lord inglĂ©s.…
Addiction & Compulsion Body, Mind and Words
Near the end of a seminar on addictions in San Juan, Puerto Rico, documentary producer Penelope Douglas cut into a presentation to make her point. Wake Forest University Medical School…
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